Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [verb] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've served on that one , and the whole business of the organisation has generally speaking been run by the executive and not by a full council . |
| 2 | That the Bill shall be laid upon the Table of the House by one of the Clerks in the Private Bill Office on the next meeting of the House after the day on which the Bill has been presented and , when so laid , shall be read the first and second time ( and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read ) and , having been amended by the Committee in the last Session , shall be ordered to lie upon the Table . |
| 3 | When Banner treated its properties as investment properties in its 1990/91 accounts , auditors Stoy Hayward added to their report : ‘ Without qualifying our opinion above , we draw attention to note 8 which refers to the valuation of investment properties having been conducted by the directors at open market value assuming vacant possession ’ ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September 1991 , p 33 ) . |
| 4 | The interim legislative body was condemned as phoney , membership having been determined by the Americans ; it contained no representatives of workers or peasants but instead represented the sordid interests of Korean capitalism . |
| 5 | The path was in fact too wide , the width having been determined by the machinery . |
| 6 | She is an orphan , both her parents having been shot by the Germans . |
| 7 | For some years the family had lived on the island of Rousay , where both the Social Work and Education Departments were actively involved with them , having been alerted by the school to concerns over the welfare of the children . |
| 8 | Part of the answer is that there is a lot of fiscal juggling in the R&D accounts , with a great deal of large-scale engineering and demonstration work of the federal government — especially on matters related to energy — having been scuttled by the Reagan administration as inappropriate for the government . |
| 9 | At least ten pit bull terriers have been destroyed after having been collected by the dog wardens . |
| 10 | Gatherum Castle is of immense size and quite new , having been built by the Duke for a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 11 | Martial law was lifted in Beijing on Jan. 11 , having been imposed by the authorities in May 1989 in an attempt to quell growing pro-democracy demonstrations centred in the city 's Tiananmen Square [ see p. 36641 ; see pp. 36720-22 for crushing of pro-democracy movement in early June ] . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the southern groups of Samoeds and Kets in the upper Yenisei and Sayan regions disappeared , having been assimilated by the Russian , Tungus , Buryat or Turkic peoples . |
| 13 | Provided that the board may refuse such an application if the applicant , having been cited by the board to attend the meeting at which his application is to be considered , fails to attend such a meeting . |
| 14 | Two bilateral United States-Soviet treaties , the Threshold Test Ban Treaty signed in July 1974 [ see pp. 26614-15 ] and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty signed in May 1976 [ see pp. 27813-14 ; 36060 ] , limiting underground explosions to 150 kilotons or less , were ratified by the USSR Supreme Soviet on Oct. 9 , having been ratified by the US Senate on Sept. 25 . |
| 15 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 16 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 17 | With the current leases due to expire in September 1991 , talks between the two sides began in May 1990 [ see p. 37458 ] , having been delayed by the December 1989 coup attempt . |
| 18 | The other is that it actually fosters in you in-built critical faculties , so you can actually edit and shape your work as you go along , having been taught by the master — the masters of literature — not just the professors , the great writers . ’ |
| 19 | The new Scheme , having been sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners , was finally approved by the Queen on 15th July 1881 . |
| 20 | On March 15 the King formally appointed a 292-member National Legislative Assembly ( NLA ) , the membership having been named by the NPKA . |
| 21 | And at 21.00 on 22 August , the day of his appointment , having been received by the Kaiser and awarded the order Pour le Mérite , he left German headquarters at Coblenz for East Prussia . |
| 22 | The Greek Government considered that that view was borne out by the fact that the Community legislation on the fishing industry referred to vessels ‘ flying the flag of a member state ’ or ‘ registered in a member state ’ and regarded those concepts as having been defined by the laws of the member states . |
| 23 | P&O Group Head Office and Central Services staff who have completed one years service at 1 April following the year to which the incentive relates and who are in company service on the payment date , will be eligible for a bonus subject to a set target of profitability having been achieved by the Group . |
| 24 | The eighteenth edition , published in 1971 , is significant in having been adopted by the Library of Congress and BNB for their MARC records . |
| 25 | Some of the cases to which I have referred suggest that the answer to the problem depends on whether or not the debtor can be regarded as having been appointed by the creditor to act as agent of the creditor in procuring the consent of the third party to the proposed security transaction . |
| 26 | This justifiable attitude was not exactly vindicated by their young local doctor who , having been rejected by the army and brimming with psychological theories , explained to Harriet , dogmatically and at length , that Liza was unable to help her condition — no one in those days referred to post-natal depression — and every allowance must be made because of the tragic death of her husband . |
| 27 | If a Bill is passed by the Commons in two successive sessions having been rejected by the Lords , it can be presented for the Royal Assent provided that one year has elapsed between the date of its second reading in the Commons in the first session and the date of its passing by the Commons in the second session . |
| 28 | Drinks were served to members of the club by Taffe until the early hours of the morning , without any extension having been granted by the licensing magistrates . |
| 29 | ( In Siegfried Wagner achieved a comparable brilliance in that Siegfried , having been splashed by the blood of the dragon he has killed , wins the ability to penetrate the hypocrisy of Mime , who is made to profess good while simultaneously revealing the real evil he intends . ) |
| 30 | Instantly switching targets , Angel One drove a quick punch at Satan 's flank as the dog fell back , his attack having been deflected by the forearm block . |